Manganese in Drinking Water: Study Suggests Adverse Effects on Children's Intellectual Abilities

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100920074013.htm

ScienceDaily (Sep. 23, 2010) — A team of researchers led by Maryse Bouchard, adjunct professor at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, Health, Environment and Society (CINBIOSE) of the Université du Québec à Montréal and a researcher at Sainte-Justine University Hospital, and Donna Mergler, professor emerita in the Department of Biological Sciences and a member of CINBIOSE, recently completed a study showing that children exposed to high concentrations of manganese in drinking water performed worse on tests of intellectual functioning than children with lower exposures.

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